I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

Boxers are hot, and by boxers I mean guys who box, not the underwear. So get rid of 'em!

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

I've met people and have mentors that have taught me and I'm still trying to get better today.

The worlds in which we live at heart are one, The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done"; And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit, The world "I love,"--the only living root.

Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

People will always respect you when you're in the process of being better.

My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be